TORONTO -- Gary Roberts doesnt think Sidney Crosby looked right in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The former NHLer played two seasons with Crosby in Pittsburgh and said Tuesday the Penguins superstar probably suffered from the long layoff after coming back from a concussion. "Sidney Crosby needs to be in elite shape to perform at the level that he needs to perform at," Roberts said. "I havent talked to him, but I dont think he was feeling great. You cant miss that much time in a season, even Sidney Crosby." Roberts knows about coming back from injury. The former Stanley Cup winner suffered a serious neck injury that forced him to retire at the age of 30. But he changed his lifestyle, started to train differently and went on to play a total of 21 seasons in NHL before retiring after the 2008-09 campaign. Crosby played just 22 games in the regular season, registering 37 points (8-29). He added three goals and five assists in the Penguins six-game loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. Roberts, 45, says the average person doesnt understand the rigours of what it takes to play professional hockey. "Look at Mats Sundin," Roberts said of the former captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs. "He took six months off, went back to Vancouver and he told me Holy crap, I worked hard off the ice and I cant believe how bad I feel out there." Roberts added that any criticism of Crosby for not playing for Canada at the world hockey championship is unjustified. "If youre not healthy the most important thing when the season is over (is to get ready for next season). Players cant afford to be healing in the summer," he said. "Youve got to be getting stronger and preparing for the next year. The summers are not for relaxation to the point that you dont work." Roberts added in a wide-ranging phone interview that he was captivated by the first round of this years playoffs, especially the high-scoring Penguins-Flyers series. "I didnt know what to think in the first round. It was so crazy," said Roberts, who played for Calgary, Carolina, Toronto, Florida, Pittsburgh and Tampa Bay. "I just thought Wow, how does that happen to a team like Pittsburgh? I thought they would win the series, No. 1 and I definitely didnt think wed be getting eight goals a game." Roberts also said he regretted comments that appeared a day earlier in the Buffalo News where he called Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis "a moron." The Canucks traded Cody Hodgson to the Buffalo Sabres prior to the trade deadline. Gillis criticized Hodgson, who trains with Roberts at his gym in the summer, at his end-of-season news conference. "I spent more time on Codys issues than every other player combined on our team the last three years," the Canucks GM said last week. The comments made it clear that Hodgson, who suffered a serious back injury while with the Canucks, had requested a trade out of Vancouver. "I obviously didnt choose the right words. I dont have anything personally against Mike Gillis or the Vancouver Canucks," Roberts said Tuesday. "It was a little unjustified for me to go that far and I apologize for that word I used. "But in Codys defence, Ive been with this player for three years, I see his commitment, dedication, the type of person he is, the way he treats people. I see how hard hes worked through a very tough time early in his career and I just felt very strongly that I had to take a stand for this young man." jerseys from china . They had partnered for 12 seasons -- an eternity in this day and age for a franchise and a manager. They had won a lot of games together -- 998 to be exact -- and six division titles. nfl jerseys china . The linebacker made one Pro Bowl and one All-Pro team in 11 NFL seasons, the first 10 with the smaller-market Tennessee Titans. Bulluck officially retired as a Titan on Friday. http://www.cheapnfljerseys2015.us.co... . 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"Its nothing," he said with a smile. Driving in the winning runs must have made the pain go away in a hurry. After getting hit by a pitch early in the game, Choo delivered a two-out double in the 10th inning Saturday night that sent Cleveland to an 11-9 victory over Kansas City -- despite blowing a seven-run lead in a testy affair marked by three ejections and a pair of bench-clearings. "What a crazy kind of emotional game," said Indians manager Manny Acta, who was among those thrown out during an eventful third inning. "Just glad we came out on top." Light-hitting Yuniesky Betancourt helped force extras when he homered in the eighth inning for the Royals, completing their bit-by-bit comeback from a 9-2 hole. With two outs in the 10th, Choo pounded a pitch from Greg Holland (0-1) to centre field that Jarrod Dyson tracked down at the wall. He appeared to have the ball in his glove before it popped loose, and Jason Kipnis and Michael Brantley came around with the go-ahead runs. Jairo Asencio (1-1) earned his first major league win by pitching a clean ninth inning, while Chris Perez set the Royals down in order for his second save of the season. "Always you try to win games," Choo said, "but especially tonight." Choo was plunked by Jonathan Sanchez in the third inning, sending both teams streaming onto the infield. Sanchez and Choo have some history: The left-hander broke Choos thumb last season by hitting him with a pitch. Choo wound up on the disabled list for nearly two months. "I know its not on purpose. The catcher set up inside," Choo said. "But I still have the memory from last year. Maybe I was a little sensitive." Tempers were still simmering in the bottom half when Cleveland starter Jeanmar Gomez hit Mike Moustakas leading off the inning. Plate umpire Gary Darling immediately tossed Gomez along with Acta and third baseman Jack Hannahan, who rushed into the middle of the fray. Royals manager Ned Yost was also in the middle of the scrap, losing his hat as he got into Hannahans face between the mound and first base. "I dont really know what they were thinking," Yost said. "They had to go to their pen early. We had to go to our pen early. Its one of those things." Carlos Santana, Jose Lopez andd Kipnis each drove in a pair of runs for the Indians, who have come alive after a miserable five-game stretch to start the season.dddddddddddd. They scored seven times in the first inning while taking the series opener, and piled up 14 hits on Saturday night. Things soured for Sanchez early in the third, when Brantley ripped a one-out triple to the wall. Asdrubal Cabrera followed with an RBI single, and Sanchez plunked Choo on the right knee. Choo started jawing at Sanchez as he headed toward first base, and the Royals starter dished the trash talk right back at him. Hannahan rushed at Sanchez before the umpires and coaches from both teams intervened, restoring order before tempers boiled over. "I hit him twice. I have nothing against him," Sanchez said. "I just wanted to come in with those pitches. But if youre going to miss, miss in. Im not going to miss over the plate." The Indians immediately pounced on the rattled Sanchez, piling up five runs before he was finally lifted from his Kauffman Stadium debut after 2 2-3 innings. The Royals got a pair of runs back in the third, but Cleveland scored another run in the fourth and added three more in the fifth -- Kotchman went deep leading off the inning, and Kipnis followed a base hit by Jason Donald with his own homer to make it 9-2. Then Royals rally started in the most innocuous of ways. Betancourt singled to lead off the fifth inning, and an RBI double by Moustakas and an RBI by Escobar on a double-play groundout made it 9-4. Kansas City added two more runs in the sixth. Butler ripped a one-out double to left field, and an error on Kipnis at second base allowed Betancourt to reach first and keep the inning alive for Moustakas, whose RBI double pulled the Royals within three runs. Hosmers run-scoring double and Butlers RBI single made it a one-run game in the seventh, and Betancourt finally tied it on a 2-2 pitch from Vinnie Pestano leading off the eighth. Choo made all the hard work coming back moot. "We were down seven

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